Ladybirds Pre-school
GoodTakes funded hoursBirth to 5Open for decades
A pre-school in Salisbury for from 2 years up to 5 year olds, open 09:15 to 17:15, 5 days a week. £7.00 an hour for two year olds, and they take the funded hours. Rated Good by Ofsted in September 2021, though that is 5 years ago now. Open since 2001, with 38 places.
What it costs
Prices change without notice. Treat these as what to ask about, not a quote.
| Age | Hourly | |
|---|---|---|
| Two year olds2y to 3y | £7.00for two year olds | |
| 3 & 4 Year olds3y to 4y | £5.33for 3 & 4 Year olds |
Where this came from
The outlined line is the one the price was taken from.
Funded hours
Two year old Early Years Education funding, for up to 15 hours per week, to a maximum of 570 hours per birthday year, or up to 30 hours available when specific criteria are met. 3 & 4 Year Olds: As a registered childcare provider, the pre-school can claim Early Years Education funding for all 3 and 4 year olds for up to 15 hours per week, or 30 hours should the criteria be met.
Worth knowing. When your child becomes eligible to claim the funding, and the hours they attend exceed their 15 or 30 hours entitlement per week (depending on your requirements), then fees are payable to the pre-school.
What childcare usually costs in Wiltshire
This is not this setting's price. It is the median hourly fee across all providers in Wiltshire from the Department for Education's 2025 provider survey. No national data holds what an individual nursery charges, so ring and ask.
Places, hours and the day
Who they take, when they are open, and what a day there includes.
Where it is
SP1 3PNWhat the inspector found
One grade is one visit. A run of them tells you whether it has been good for years or has only just got there.
Ofsted inspector, 22 September 2021 · read the full report
What it is like to attend
Children respond positively to the friendly, caring staff. They feel safe in the preschool and are keen to explore the exciting play activities offered. Staff are keen to help children learn through their play. They work together well as a team to plan activities that build on children's existing abilities and interests. Staff extend children's exploration, language and understanding of the world effectively. For example, children become absorbed playing with a small-world farm activity. They push the tractors and trailers around in the soil and talk about the marks and patterns. They move the farm animals in and out of the toy trailers and learn the noises these animals make. Children talk about the farmers sowing seeds and learn how these grow. Children enjoy exercise. They follow the actions from favourite songs and stretch their arms, march up and down and shake their hands and feet.
Children gain confidence climbing up onto the slide and then happily push themselves down. They stretch, bend and lift in the role-play construction area.
They know they need to wear their 'hard hats' to keep themselves safe when playing in this area. Children learn appropriate behaviour expectations and play together well.
What Ofsted told them to improve
To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should:
- continue to develop the opportunities for children to recognise and match numbers to quantity in activities, to develop their mathematical awareness further n strengthen procedures to keep parents more consistently well informed about their children's learning, to support their involvement further.
- 22 September 2021Good
- 24 June 2019Needs improvement
- 16 April 2015Outstanding
Rated Good or Outstanding at 2 of the last 3 graded inspections.
Still missing for Ladybirds Pre-school
- Meals
- Nappies
- Waiting list
No dataset holds any of this. Two parents telling us the same thing puts it on the page for whoever looks next.
What to ask them
Some of this is above, from the setting or from parents, and it can go out of date. The rest is in no dataset anywhere. Either way it is worth ten minutes on the phone.
- Is £7.00 an hour still the rate? What is on top: meals, nappies, late pick-up, and what happens if you are late.
- How do you apply my funded hours? Whether they stretch them over the year, and the minimum days you have to book.
- Do you have a place for a child of my age now? Baby rooms fill first and waiting lists are common.
- Who would my child's key person be? And how long have the staff been there. No dataset holds this and it matters more than anything above.
- Can I visit at a busy time? Mid-morning on a weekday tells you far more than an empty room after hours.
Pre-schools within a couple of miles
This one is first. Tick it and one or two others to see them side by side.